Rep. Ed Markey, an aggressive privacy advocate in Congress, pressed the top executive at Comcast Corp. on Wednesday over the company's decision to begin recording the Web browsing activities of each of its 1 million high-speed Internet subscribers.

He said the company's action could be in violation of federal law.

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In a link from the third bullet:

Beginning immediately, we will stop storing
this individual customer information in order to completely
reassure our customers that the privacy of their information is
secure.``

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Needless to say I was on the line with Comcast for an hour today lodging a complaint. It seems the press was put to good use today.